I get bored watching liberal outlets like The Majority Report with Sam Seder or The David Pakman Show. The Young Turks is the worst of them all; I almost never search for their videos. Almost all liberal news or commentary is obsessed with covering Republicans or Democrats. Is there any leftist, preferably libertarian, alternative? While I prefer video, print media is acceptable as well. But I don’t like stuff like Jacobin magazine.
You can try reading journals…
You can try reading journals (e.g. ICT's Revolutionary Perspectives or the SPGB's Socialist Standard) if you want communist analysis of current events, but I don't think there are really that many communist news sources out there. The People's World and stuff like Monthly Review also spring to mind. I wouldn't uncritically or fully endorse any of the aforementioned publications, but that doesn't mean that they're without any merit or that there is nothing to be gleaned from them.
As far as just staying in the know about what's happening in the world, really any (non-overtly right-wing) news source will do, though obviously news sources are quite different in terms of what they like to cover and what their political biases are. I think something like Democracy Now is quite sufficient in that department, but you always have to be critical regardless of what you're reading or viewing.
Means TV has a morning news…
Means TV has a morning news show, which is left, albeit very US-centric: https://means.tv/programs/mmn
ZNet actually has an entire…
ZNet actually has an entire Discord (in addition to daily articles on their website dealing with current events), so if you wanna go chat with Albert, he's over there...
Libcom should start a Discord.
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Recently noticed that a good…
Recently noticed that a good number of people involved in Jacobin magazine has fully embraced market “socialism.” Pieces that have been published recently on the topic of socialism are literally promoting and defending a market economy.
You should not rely on …
You should not rely on "leftist" news. You will end up being forced to rely on their political analysis and as I am sure you know that is a level of trust you should not give to other groups. You should try to figure out what is going on by reading through as many diverse news sources as possible and from there you should be able to figure out which sources are reliable, what slants they have, etc.
The role of left media should be providing commentary and analysis. For that I'd recommend academic and intellectual sources like Monthly Review, New Left Review, or Review of African Political Economy. Others, too, depending on what kind of news you're talking about.
Nonetheless, one source of genuinely progressive news I would recommend is DropSite. It is made by people who left The Intercept, including Jeremy Scahill and generally has very strong commentary and news updates on international affairs.